When she hits the presidential campaign trail next year, 2008 White House hopeful Hillary Clinton is planning to sell herself to the nation as a common sense, iron-willed, family values candidate. | Bwahahahahaha! |
He writes: "As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton looks for a basic sales pitch after what is likely to be a sweeping reelection victory in her New York Senate race this fall, sheÂ’s going to play a part that comes naturally to her: hard-eyed realist in a world of dreamers . . . "SheÂ’s the one who kept her family together - its finances, its marriage, most of its parenting function," Fineman notes - credentials that he says will be key to Hillary's appeal.
| Too many jokes, so little time.... |
Of Hillary's image as wife and mother, the Newsweek scribe reports: "That is the role she will cast herself in as she tries to win the White House."
"After eight years of what she will call the perhaps worthy but disastrously administered dreams of George Bush, itÂ’s time to restore some discipline," says Fineman, adding: "Think of the iron-willed mom in 'Malcolm in the Middle.'"
| I'm thinking more "Mommy Dearest" |